Zara Ahmed

Early-career ML — evals, fine-tuning, small models

Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging FaceRemote (US) · America/New_York3 yrs · IC3

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AI match score

81/ 100

Good

Last touched3w ago

OwnerMei Lin

Comp expectation$200,000–$260,000

Flight risklow

Customer-facing classifier rewrite

ML lead · Apr 2022 — Nov 2024

Replaced a rules-based classifier with a fine-tuned encoder; set up the eval and monitoring story.

F1 improved by 12 points; false-positive escalations halved.

Evidence of the project's output.